How to Learn Anything: Memory Science and Study Skills That Actually Work
Unit 1 · Lesson 1

In, Kept, Out: The Three Stages of a Memory

You will be able to trace any piece of studying through encoding, storage and retrieval, and use the forgetting curve to predict roughly how much of an unreviewed chapter is left after a day and after a week.
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